May 28, 2019
Stories tagged "Paris Agreement"
May 2, 2019
House of Representatives Takes A Stand On Paris Agreement
Yesterday the House of Representatives voted to demand that the Trump Administration re-commit the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement. Only three Republican Members of Congress crossed over to vote with the Democrats who all supported the measure. The New...April 25, 2019
How Green Is Joe Biden?
Joe Biden, the latest candidate to join the Presidential race, has yet to say where he stands on many of the issues, like the Green New Deal, President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks, and oil and gas drilling on federal land, to name just a few of today’s...Earth Week Exclusive Interview with Carol Browner, Conservation Champion
Carol Browner has had a long career in public service on environmental conservation. She was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1993-2001 and served as President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change...April 23, 2019
Arctic Melting Increasing, As Are Costs Of Dealing With It
A team of scientists studying Greenland’s ice mass reviewed data going back as far as 1972 for the first time, which allowed them to look at longer trends, and learned that even though there might be more snow in some years, the glaciers (large ice masses on the...February 25, 2019
Shareholders Persuade Glencore To Put a Cap on Coal
An investor coalition, Climate Action 100+ along with the Anglican Church, successfully urged the multinational commodities firm Glencore (the largest coal exporter in the world) to cap at current levels the amount of coal it extracts, which is projected to be 145...February 14, 2019
Wisconsin Joins Climate Alliance
Wisconsin’s new Governor Tony Evers announced on Tuesday that the state would become the 21st to join the U.S. Climate Alliance and meet the climate change reduction targets set by the Paris Agreement. By adding Wisconsin, the states that have joined the...February 8, 2019
Interview of the Week: Todd Stern on COP 24 and the GND
Todd Stern is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Distinguished Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He previously served as the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement....January 31, 2019
Democratic Candidates Get Behind the Green New Deal
Endorsing the Green New Deal is becoming a talisman of politics in the 2020 Presidential race on the Democratic side. The Washington Post’s Power Post pointed out that this is a policy that almost no one had heard of last November but is now one of the key...January 17, 2019